---
title: Brave Search
---

**BraveSearch** enables an Agent to search the web for information using the Brave search engine.

## Prerequisites

The following examples requires the `brave-search` library.

```shell
pip install -U brave-search
```
```shell
export BRAVE_API_KEY=***
```

## Example


```python cookbook/tools/bravesearch_tools.py
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.tools.bravesearch import BraveSearchTools

agent = Agent(
    tools=[BraveSearchTools()],
    description="You are a news agent that helps users find the latest news.",
    instructions=[
        "Given a topic by the user, respond with 4 latest news items about that topic."
    ],
    )
agent.print_response("AI Agents", markdown=True)

```

## Toolkit Params

| Parameter              | Type           | Default | Description                                                                        |
| ---------------------- | -------------- | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `api_key`              | `Optional[str]` | `None`  | Brave API key. If not provided, will use BRAVE_API_KEY environment variable.      |
| `fixed_max_results`    | `Optional[int]` | `None`  | A fixed number of maximum results.                                                |
| `fixed_language`       | `Optional[str]` | `None`  | A fixed language for the search results.                                          |
| `enable_brave_search`  | `bool`          | `True`  | Enable or disable the brave_search function.                                      |
| `all`                  | `bool`          | `False` | Enable all available functions in the toolkit.                                    |


## Toolkit Functions

| Function        | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `brave_search` | Searches Brave for a specified query. Parameters include `query` (str) for the search term, `max_results` (int, default=5) for the maximum number of results, `country` (str, default="US") for the country code for search results, and `search_lang` (str, default="en") for the language of the search results. Returns a JSON formatted string containing the search results. |

## Developer Resources

- View [Tools](https://github.com/agno-agi/agno/blob/main/libs/agno/agno/tools/bravesearch.py)
- View [Cookbook](https://github.com/agno-agi/agno/tree/main/cookbook/tools/bravesearch_tools.py)
